Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon, public health researcher and a writer for The New Yorker, advocates a mindset switch from docs as cowboys to docs as pit crews. Gawande also urges the smart use of data and a well-designed checklist for better and safer care.
A recent brief from eHealth Initiative asserts that more health IT job opportunities are available than qualified people to fill them -- especially on the health data exchange front.
What with the presidential non-binding primary over, Missouri is more than just one of three states where Rick Santorum surprised the nation. The Show-Me State is staunch in its opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) -- the individual mandate specifically.
Healthcare reform is arguably the hot-button political issue of our time. And with the Supreme Court locked and loaded to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act this summer, it's a safe bet the controversial two-year-old legislation will have a huge impact on the 2012 election and beyond.
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced Monday it has posted a video and audio podcast on the agency's self disclosure protocol, the most recent of its video and audio presentations on top healthcare compliance topics.
The Office of Inspector General has provided a laundry list of management and performance challenges facing the Department of Health and Human Services. Many have IT implications, such as improving patient safety, preventing Medicare and Medicaid fraud and ensuring that IT systems and data are secure.
The GOP primary candidates head to Nevada on Saturday, a state with poor healthcare and few healthcare resources -- also one that has plunged in and begun implementing what it can of the Affordable Care Act, even though many in the state don't agree with the politics of it.
While the American Medical Association is calling for a halt to ICD-10, the American Health Information Management Association is countering by urging all to stay the course toward the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) announced Tuesday that its Board of Directors has endorsed four measures on healthcare resource use and costs. Officials say the measures -- which focus on diabetes and cardiovascular care costs, as well as those for total primary-care -- will provide data on how resources are used in these areas of care, helping create a more efficient healthcare system.
The Veterans Health Administration plans to deploy a mobile triage solution for the emergency room. The idea for the touch-screen triage tablet came from a VA Employee Innovation Competition, where Orlando, Fla.-based DSHI Systems emerged as one of the winners.
A think tank with a healthcare task force chaired by former Senators Tom Daschle, a Democrat, and Bill Frist, MD, a Republican, is advocating for improved and better-used health information technology. Among the group's recommendations is "robust" data exchange.
Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, expressed urgency in pressing forward with the "triple aim" goals of better individual healthcare, better population health and lower costs called for in the health reform law.
The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has launched an innovation challenge designed to spur the use of simple, IT-enabled processes to make care transitions, especially hospital discharges, safer for patients and easier for caregivers.
Newt Gingrich's Washington-based advocacy on behalf of a broad array of healthcare interests has been far more extensive than the Republican presidential candidate has acknowledged, a review by the Center for Public Integrity has found.
ONC's Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) recently launched a Privacy & Security Mobile Device project, and is at work achieving its stated goals.
The National Priorities Partnership (NPP) has published five case studies that explore "on-the-ground" application and alignment with national priorities for improving healthcare.
Healthcare was mentioned only in passing in President Obama's State of the Union address and Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels' Republican rebuttal Wednesday night.
